1. Remember the Robert Mitchum film, "The Enemy Below?" Mitchum character was naval destroyer commander hunting a German U-Boat commanded by Curd Jürgens' character who always came back to course 140. For him it was the way home.
2. Trump is coming back to the Ukraine conspiracy IMO because Putin says it will work and they have sunk the money in the campaign to blast it during the campaign. Trump can't change course. He's already made that his plan to be re-elected and won't change.
3. He's going to stay on course 140. Even as his sub is sinking.
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1/ Why is Zelensky in Palm Beach? Russia is about to lose. Ukraine is attacking the rail lifeline that feeds Russian forces, turning Moscow’s dependence on rail into a vulnerability that now turning into a total logistics failure.
2/ Ukrainian partisans from the ATESH movement report they sabotaged a key railway hub in Bataysk, near Rostov‑on‑Don, disrupting Russian military logistics to multiple fronts. Bataysk is sorting hub for trains carrying personnel
3/ armored vehicles, fuel, & ammo to Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk & Crimea. If Bataysk slows, entire southern supply architecture feels it. kyivpost.com/post/66697
I had four-year internship on how to run the DOJ. My brother was the AG’s personal attorney, assistant deputy AG and Chief of Staff and investigated two former presidents for major crimes. We spoke often about most of the big stuff unless it was classified. 1/
He kept his AG out of trouble during a presidency that included an impeachment. That AG went on to serve longer than all but one AG who held the office from 1817 to 1829 before we limited POTUS to two terms. 2/
Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche made a big mistake that will likely get them disbarred and convicted of federal crimes. They did the one thing you never do: Fail appoint a Special Counsel and instead act to obstruct an investigation. Remember John Mitchell? 3/
Donald Trump's somewhat childish posts showing Barack Obama being arrested tells me that the review of the Epstein files hit a lot of evidence that linked him to the trafficking. He wasn't POTUS then and there is no
immunity and no statute of limitations. He must be going nuts. I'm seeing posts of videos that I've never seen before. One shows a large group of very young girls dressed in white with both Trump and Epstein looking at them like deranged child predators.
It makes me wonder if this is being released to destroy him. If the report of Vance meeting with the Murdochs is accurate, Vance could be diverting his attention from his apparent betrayal by feeding him the "Obama did it" party line.
I try to make sense out of otherwise bizarre facts. Trump has always been careful about Epstein and there's sworn court evidence that he was involved in his crimes. But his sudden decision to diss the MAGA cult's biggest obsession, with the predicable blowback is puzzling.
What if it isn't just about Trump? What if it's about the Mossad and the long-reported Epstein connection to shadowy Mossad operations that used American and foreign Israel supporters to perform intelligence operations?
There’s historical and investigative reporting around the concept of “Sayanim" (Hebrew: סייענים, meaning “helpers” or “assistants”), which refers to unpaid Jewish civilians who assist Mossad operations out of loyalty to Israel.
I woke up today with a plan to read Justice Coney-Barret's opinion on nationwide injunctions. I got about 5 minutes into it and put it down. It was wrong and demonstratively so right out of the gate. It proceeds from a false proposition: That history shows that single
federal courts lack the power to enforce nationwide injunctions against non-parties. That's wrong and I say that after practicing over thirty-years in an area of law with a well-known nationwide injunction that also applies, in circumstances, world-wide.
It's triggered by the filing of a small petition before an Art. 1 federal court with the power referred to it by the Art 3 court and binds all persons immediately. If they act without knowledge of this injunction they'll likely be ordered
Most of the world is making a very big and dangerous mistake about Julani and the HTS regime controlling Syria. He is a Jihadist. An ideologue who has apparently convinced several intelligence services that he will play ball. Perhaps the time he was in Iraq
involved some attempt to recruit him. It just doesn't work that way. He's al-Qaeda and he will never change.
I have for decades believed Hamas was victimizing Palestinians to advance Iran's and other malign actors' goals of maintaining constant conflict with Israel and the US.
I also believe that the manner in which Netanyahu has conducted the war in Gaza constitutes aggressive war and genocide both chargeable under the UN Genocide Convention. The criminal mishandling of the war in Gaza notwithstanding, Israel has a right to eliminate HTS from Syria.